Meta Description In Blog Feed

[MyNet]

The SEOmoz crawl tool is giving me a lot of crawl errors because my blog feed and my blog tags do not have meta descriptions.  Can you even give this type of content meta descriptions?  If so how can you do it, as this content is created dynamically by Wordpress?

[blu42media]

The tag pages will only add duplicate content for you.  It would be a good idea to add a meta tag for robots with the value "noindex,follow".  This will keep the pages out of the index, yet still let the links be followed.  There are plugins available for this sort of thing, Yoast has a good one; I believe All In One SEO is also pretty good too.

[CodyWheeler]

Yep. I use all in one SEO pack for meta descriptions. Remember meta tags aren't as much about SEO as they are about creating a compelling cilckable intro when it comes to blogs. Often times Google is going to use your meta content for the text below your title on the SERPs pages. Write some compelling copy there and you'll see positive results.

Yoast is nice too. I find it useful for canonicalization.

This is all assuming you're using Wordpress of course

[MyNet]

I do write meta descriptions on all my blog posts, and I actually do use the Wordpress All in One SEO pack.  However just because you put information for the Meta Title and Meta Description for the article, does not mean it is going to show up in the blog tags or in the blog feed.  The feed and the tags consist of a combination of several different articles and are created dynamically.  However, they are not given a meta description tag.  I would like to find a way to give them a meta description tag. Any suggestions?  I'm not sure if giving tags a no index is the right thing to do or not.  I have actually had several tag url's get ranked for great long tail keywords in Google.